{"id":202508,"date":"2019-05-23T14:10:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T19:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=202508"},"modified":"2019-05-22T10:33:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:33:35","slug":"pete-buttigieg-science-pro-life-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pete-buttigieg-science-pro-life-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Pete Buttigieg is ignoring both science and pro-life women"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When <\/span>Georgia enacted the heartbeat law<\/span><\/a>, the bill\u2019s lead sponsor, a woman, state Sen. Renee Unterman, <\/span>called it<\/span><\/a> \u201cthe pinnacle of her legislative career.\u201d But Democrat presidential candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg reacted to the news by framing the bill as a \u201ccruel attack\u201d by \u201cmale politicians\u201d on women. Although clearly misleading, Mayor Pete\u2019s use of this kind of language is no accident. <\/span><\/p>\n

Highly targeted pro-abortion language like Mayor Pete\u2019s has one goal: to pack a powerful emotional punch. The desired effect is to deliver the message that the pro-life position is sinister, conniving, backwards, and outright evil. In the end, we are supposed to forget that <\/span>what Mayor Pete protests so loudly against is a heartbeat. Tiny, barely detectable, but beating, beating, beating.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A woman has enough to deal with when it comes to her health care without also having to worry about male politicians telling her what she ought to do with her body. Georgia\u2019s abortion ban is a cruel attack on women\u2019s autonomy and freedom \u2014 one that we must continue to resist.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) May 9, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n